Hello All, Filmed at the Royal Festival on 1st October, please find below the session by Paolo Barone on Microsoft Surface: If for any reason you cannot view this clip, please do let me know. Best wishes,   Allison

  Hello, I’d like to tell you a little about the ITA Student Pass which gives students access to a large number of e-learning courses free of charge. The e-learning materials will provide your students with access to training on real-world technology and industry-recognised certification. You might even envisage an opportunity to ...

Hello, I want to invite you along to a free half day event taking place in Exeter on 23rd October 2008 and which was created with developers in mind. Technical experts from the UK MSDN team will deliver a range of demos and provide insight into the latest enhancements across many areas of the .Net Framework. This is your opportunity to broaden ...

In an earlier blog I directed you toward the free Preparation Kit for the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Exam 70-571 and, following on from that, today I’d like to introduce you to the Microsoft IT Academy Student Pass which provides free e-learning courses to verified university students and is an excellent way for them to supplement their degree ...

Good morning, I thought I’d start the week with a give-away of the ten Tech-Ed Conference DVD sets sitting on my desk. So, if you live in the UK and would like me to pop one in the post to you, email me your address details and the first ten to reply will get the goodies. Have a good week. Allison

Hi All, In June, Bournemouth University played host to Lars Lindstedt who delivered a two day Software Entrepreneurship Faculty Workshop. The training materials for that event are now available to view on the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship website and include the slide decks together with a couple of case studies. Do please take ...

Hi,   I thought you'd like to receive your invitation to an interesting event in Denmark.     Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance invites you to attend:   Microsoft Academic Preconference and Convergence 2008 Copenhagen, Denmark from 17 to 20 November, 2008.   Last year we hosted about 60 educators and ...

One of the exciting new projects being demonstrated at the BETT show this year is the Films for Learning Project. I know that many of you work with your feeder schools to establish links, provide extra curricular activities and to foster enthusiasm for Computer Science and Engineering subjects and I think this resource could help you. I see ...

  The academic team is currently in London running the Microsoft Student Partner bootcamp; 62 students from 50 universities learning about our tools, products and vision so that they can help their peers develop a love of technology. A big debate just revealed that many of them are unaware of the benefits they can derive from your ...

 We’re very excited in the Academic team, we’re just about to launch the “Inspiration Tour” and we can’t wait to go out and meet you all. Ed Dunhill           Ed and Ben will be out on the road during the next six months, so why not take a look at our Inspiration Tour web page to find out ...